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Predict a person’s success
LANGUAGE APTITUDE TESTS
Measure capacity/ general ability to learn a foreign language and ultimate success in that undertaking.
LANGUAGE APTITUDE TESTS
measuring success by similar processes of mimicry, memorisation, and puzzle-solving
LANGUAGE APTITUDE TESTS
Test overall ability.
PROFICIENCY TESTS
Not limited to any one course, curriculum, or single skill in the language.
PROFICIENCY TESTS
The tasks must be legitimate samples of English language use in the defined context.
PROFICIENCY TESTS
Creating these tasks and validating them with research is time-consuming and costly process.
PROFICIENCY TESTS
to place a student into a particular level or section of a language curriculum or school
PLACEMENT TESTS
Face validity, diagnostic information on students’ performance and authenticity
PLACEMENT TESTS
Diagnose specified aspects of a language.
DIAGNOSTIC TESTS
to determine whether course objectives have been met – and appropriate knowledge and skills acquired – by the end of a period of instruction.
ACHIEVEMENT TESTS
Often summative, but also formative in offering washback about the quality of a learners’ performance in subsets of the unit or course.
ACHIEVEMENT TESTS
analyse the extent to which students have acquired language features that have already been taught.analyse the extent to which students have acquired language features that have already been taught.
ACHIEVEMENT TESTS
elicit information on what students need to work on in the future.
DIAGNOSTIC TESTS
to place test-takers along a mathematical continuum in rank order
Norm-referenced tests
to give test-takers feedback, usually in the form of grades, on specific course or lesson objectives.
Criterion-referenced tests
